Defining agents' behaviour based on urban economic theory to simulate complex urban residential dynamics

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1155-1172

  Chen, Yimin ^a,b   Li, Xia ^a,b   Wang, Shujie ^a,b   Liu, Xiaoping ^a,b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Guangdong Key Laboratory for Urbanization and Geo simulation   (China)

Author keywords

agent based model; residential dynamics; time extended model; urban economic theory

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC THEORY; GIS; NEIGHBORHOOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECONOMY;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU;

EID: 84864723984     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2011.626780     Document Type: Article

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